Wow

In a post titled "Creature of the Left" Jim Riley had this to say about the Virginia Tech tragedy:

"So, all you liberal elitists and sanctimonious Europeans so ready to criticize Virginia and the U.S., take a long hard look at the drivel you’re spewing out into these young minds and see what it ultimately results in."

Wow.

I'm taking him off my blogroll- and I'll be doing a post tonight on which Virginia blogs still have him on their blogrolls after this.  One of the most depraved things I have seen on the internet in a long time.

Comments

[phriendlyjaime]

Good riddance. There are more blogs though, Ben, that have been politicizing this for days. Consider taking them off too.

Glad to see you are back to black.

[eileen]

Agree 100%, Ben. Good for you.

[John Wayne]

What's so offensive? It's true. The truth is that if the Right to Carry law applied to college campuses, many lives would have been saved and everyone reading this knows that.

[phriendlyjaime]

Shut up, heartless ass. Go spew your drivel on Red State or Free Republic. You aren't welcome here.

[Neal]

I don't care which side of the gun debate you're on, this isn't the time for it. It kills me just as much to hear people saying we need stricter laws right now as it does to hear people say to let everybody be packing heat. Come on, people. Take a step back.

[JMU Duke]

Good for you Ben.

Don Imus caused it.

[phriendlyjaime]

Well, I broke my blog trying to make it black. It doesn't matter though. I have noticed more than one blogger with an axe to grind has been politicizing this tragedy for days, and the roll needed to be updated anyway.

[Not Mary Matalin]

The owner of any blog is free to censor, edit, and de-link as he or she sees fit. One should just be aware of the impact that censorship has on a debate.

I often find tasteless opinions all over the blogosphere, but if I were to only interact with like-minded peers, I would never learn anything beyond that group's ideas.

[LAS]

Look, everyone knows that this terrible tragedy is directly attributable to the Clenis! And Demcorats, liberals, and progressives, naturally. As was 9/11. WWII. The flu epidemic of 1914. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Oh, yes, and let's not forget the battle of Thermoplyae.

The God that this Riley person worships is not the God I know.

[Not Jack Herrity]

Ben, I think you are making the correct decision and I would encourage you to make a similar decision about any blog that politicizes this event in the coming days, whether on the right or the left.

In many ways, this is Virginia Tech's 9/11. The community needs to be united in support for those whose lives have been irretrievably changed, not spending time pointing fingers at straw villains.

NJH

[republitarian]

"In many ways, this is Virginia Tech's 9/11. The community needs to be united in support for those whose lives have been irretrievably changed, not spending time pointing fingers at straw villains."

Like the left hasn't politicized that......

[not gretchen bulova]

Long overdue NLS. Good work

[James Young]

I don't find this any more offensive that those gun grabbers who are trying to advance their agenda based upon this tragedy. Will they get the boot, too, Ben?

[Not Larry Sabato]

James, I agree with what Governor Kaine said- just loathing the people who are turning this into politics.

[James Young]

To expand upon the point, one of the main points of the Conservative intellectual movement for the last six decades has been the proposition --- now generally accepted, I think --- that ideas have consequences. Just one for instance: many on the far Left blame the pro-Life movement for the murder of abortionists by a few crazies. But the pro-Life movement is no more responsible for such actions than the kids at Raising Dough ... er, Raising Kaine, are responsible for the murders at Tech. Perhaps one difference between "us" and "them" is that I'm perfectly willing to make/concede the point. I rarely see similar common sense from many on the far Left (present company excepted in both practice and from that categorization).

Ben, can you also drop Republitarian? I don't feel qualified to speak for everyone who has been directly impacted through having a family member at Virginia Tech, but I can speak for myself and I'm getting sick of his spew.

[James Young]

Agreed, Ben. That's the most sensible thing I've ever heard Kaine say. I hope it lasts until he puts together his legislative agenda next year.

So Riley is saying that the individuals who want to get guns off the street are those that caused this kid to drive to Roanoke, buy a guy, load it and kill 32 people? And that his rant against "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" was somehow placed into his head by Karl Marx? It is amazing to watch this guy, who already had no credibility, reach so far to score points for the right 2 days after a terrible tragedy like this.

Where's the anger over the Castle groups politicization? STD, the journal...it's been going on since the day after it happened.

What about this A**hole

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzllOTU0MDUzY2NhZDE2YmViYmRiNmE5ZjM1OWQxYTU=

[Catzmaw]

The focus on guns and gun control in the context of the Virginia Tech tragedy is not only too much politics at a time when we should instead be mourning the loss of all those lives, but is also misplaced. The real debate should be about this country's woeful mental health system and the fact that it is so very, very difficult to involuntarily hospitalize someone who is as sick as Cho obviously was. We can yammer about guns all we want, and both sides have plenty of valid points, but the real question is what can be done about those among us who deteriorate to the point that they're willing to commit mass murder. People such as Cho either have their own reasons ("you made me do this") or they adopt an extreme and homicidal version of some other viewpoint whether from the right or the left, but in the end they pose a danger to all of us and we should be trying to figure out how to prevent future occurrences.

[phriendlyjaime]

Catzmaw, I wrote a small blurb yesterday titled "Crazy and evil aren't illegal" and I included some of this sicko's "writings" if you can even call them that. Clearly disturbed person. I agree with you.

[phriendlyjaime]

anon 10:14-I saw that last night on Olbermann. It's crazy to me that these people think they know exactly what they would do as a bystander even though they have never been in such a tragic situation as the Tech family has. Despicable.

[Doug]

The Nats wore VT ball caps all last night. That's what I'm focusing on. Also beta bridge painted with "Hoos for Hokies". Everything else is stupid. Sorry- there are no stupid ideas, just stupid people.

Thanks for the post Ben.